This Is A Formidable Enemy. To Dismiss

Passing A Law Like The Assault Weapons Ban Is A Symbolic - Purely Symbolic - Move In That Direction. Its Only Real Justification Is Not To Reduce Crime But To Desensitize The Public To The Regulation Of Weapons In Preparation For Their Ultimate Confiscation.

The War Is Not Going Well And It Is Time To Say Why. It Has Been Fought With Half-measures. It Has Been Fought With An Eye On The Wishes Of Our "coalition Partners." It Has Been Fought To Assuage The Arab "street." It Has Been Fought To Satisfy The Diplomats Rather Than The Generals... Why Have We Not Loosed The B-52s And The B-2s To Carpet-bomb Taliban Positions? And Why Are We Giving The Taliban Sanctuary In Their Cities? We Could Drop Leaflets Giving Civilians 48 Hours To Evacuate, After Which The Cities Become Legitimate Military Targets.

The Joy Of Losing Consists In This: Where There Are No Expectations, There Is No Disappointment.

The 2014 Election Has Given The Gop The Rare Opportunity To Retroactively Redeem Its Brand. The Conventional Perception, Incessantly Repeated By Democrats And The Media, Is That Washington Dysfunction Is The Work Of The Party Of No. Expose The Real Agent Of Do-nothing. Show That, When Harry Reid Can No Longer Consign House-passed Legislation To Oblivion, Congress Can Actually Work.

Whenever You're Faced With An Explanation Of What's Going On In Washington, The Choice Between Incompetence And Conspiracy, Always Choose Incompetence.